Posted on 01/26/2019 8:00:07 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Modern Family star Sarah Hyland says she had a second kidney transplant last year, replacing a kidney from her father with one from her brother.
Hyland detailed her lifelong health struggles in an interview in Self magazine, and tweeted Monday that she hopes it "spreads awareness of organ donation" and "brings a sense of support" to the "beautiful warriors" in the chronically ill community.
The 28-year old, who has appeared on the ABC sitcom Modern Family since she was 18, was born with kidney dysplasia, which causes cysts to grow on underdeveloped kidneys.
So dad and brother ha e just put themselves at much higher risk of health problems and earlier death. Her body already rejected dad’s kidney in a short period of time. How much sense does it make for brother to do this? She gets a few years before rejecting hismkidney and both he and dad’s days are shortened.
I’m not saying its a nice gesture. Is it a wise or logical gesture given her body has already rejected one family members’ kidney?
So beautiful. I wish her well. Makes you appreciate your health.
I don’t think we need to bother Laz on this one.
It also isn’t wise and logical to dive on a grenade. But families do that for each other. And at the rate things are going, they’ll be growing new ones in the lab inside of 10 years, and then all three can have new ones.
If I donate a kidney, which I plan to, I run a small risk of the other kidney failing, and I get a few dietary restrictions. The remaining kidney will grow in size to accommodate the work two kidneys used to do, but will still only perform 70 to 80 percent of the work, thus, the dietary restrictions.
I get the sense that the people whose remaining kidneys fail are NOT following the dietary restrictions.
I wonder if she's ever connected the dots.
She’s a real doll.
I donated a kidney in July 2017. I am doing well.
Congratulations!
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